Chances are that you are like us – you love your ipod, but you still have a fondness for cds. iLuv’s i9200BLK Audio & Speaker system brings together the best of both worlds with its 4 CD vertical Loading system and CD changer with a built-in ipod Docking Station. The i9200BLK also sports an AM and FM radio, a backlit LCD display, a clock with a timer, and it plays MP3 CDs as well. iLuv’s i9200BLK Audio & Speaker system retails for $249.95 and is available in black and white.

Pexagon has a pink version of its very portable Store-it 2.5" 40GB USB hard drive. The hard drive has an EZ-Touch One Button Backup System which allows you to easily back up files with the press of a button located on the hard drive itself. The hard drive is USB powered so there is no need to carry a heavy AC adapter along with it, its both Mac & PC compatible, and its only 1.3cm thick – making it easy to slip in to your pocket.  Pexagon’s pink Store-it 2.5" 40GB USB hard drive retails for $99 at RitzCamera.

LG’s 1900 R LCD monitor has a crazy unique black and red design with a hole in it. At last, the hole does have a purpose to it… well sort of. LG’s home page says,"When you turn on the light, red light comes on clockwise direction to make you feel the smoothness of the light." We’re not so sure what that means but it sounds cool enough. Aside from that neat yet useless feature, the 1900 R sports a 2000:1 contrast ratio and a 4ms response time.
But if you think the L1900 R (R as in Ring) is nuts, check out its sisters the L 1900 Jar and and L 1900 Eclipse which also sport similar crazy yet beautiful styles.

I love my 5G iPod, it’s a life savor on long subway rides. However, its 2 hour
battery life for video playback just doesn’t cut it when I’m traveling from
Manhattan to Brooklyn and back. The battery never fails to run out on my way
home. There have been many days when I would have to monitor how much I used my
ipod during the course of the day, so that I could conserve battery
power for relaxing while watching videos on my way home.

Along came the Volta
which promised to give 5G ipods an extra three cycles of battery time.
Measuring 2" x 4.4" x 1", the Volta has a very slim profile about the same
thickness as the 30gb ipod but it is a bit taller and a little less wider then
the ipod. The volta is also pretty light and doesn’t add too much weight to your
ipod.

Sonnet’s Volta comes with a belt clip so that you can charge your ipod
and wear it at the same time. The belt clip easily slips on and off of the
Volta, yet still holds your ipod securely. The belt clip is a nice bonus, but
personally I wouldn’t wear it and imagine that many ladies wouldn’t either. The
Volta also comes with a matching black USB 2.0 to dock connector cable. We like
that the included cable isn’t white like the standard version that comes with
the ipod which tends to get filthy very easily....

When it comes to packing my gadgets and all their chargers, it often all ends up being a really tight fit. Slimplug aims to save you a bit of space with its folding pin plug, which also serves to protect your gadgets from getting scratched up by the pins. Slimplug is compatible with many devices including laptops, camcorders, and video consoles. Each Slimplug retails for  £14.99. (Source: Stuff Magazine UK, October 2006)

Rhythm’s Earphone Lanyards can attach to almost any music player, whether it’s the video ipod or anything else. It also has spiffy comfort fit headphones that block out outside noise. Three sizes of earphone gel tips are included so that the headphone fit comfortably in your ears, and an extension cable is included so that you can wear your music player anywhere on you that you want. Rhythm’s Earphone Lanyards retail for $69.99 and are available in several colors including the ever so popular pink of course.

This is turning out to be a great week for pink gadget lovers. The Cardo Scala 500 Bluetooth headset is an affordable headset that is available in magenta, pink and red as well as other several colors. The Scala 500 also claims to be powerful enough to last for up to 9 hours of talk time and it weighs just 16.8g. The Scala 500 bluetooth headset retails for $34.99.

Polaroid’s i639M digital camera would make a great gadget to compliment your new pink ipod Nano. In support of Breast Cancer Awareness, the i639M is available in pink, light pink and magenta! That choice of three colors is definitely a first for a digital camera. As for the camera’s specs, they are pretty good, the i639M sports 6 megapixels, a 2.4" inch LCD, 3x optical zoom, it can record MPEG4 video clips and it weighs just 5.8 oz. Polaroid’s i639M digital camera retails for $149 at CircuitCity.

We didn’t even know that Philips made laptops, let alone ultraportables. In the U.K., Currys is selling the Philips Ultraportable X53 for £799.99, weighing just 1.85kg (4 lbs), it has a 1.66mhz Core Duo T2050 Processor, 1GB of ram, an 80GB hard drive and 12.1 inch widescreen. Dixon’s is selling the X55 for Core Duo T2050 Processor 1.66GHz, it sports similar specs except that it has a Core Duo 2 T5500 processor, 100GB hard drive and Windows Media Center running inside. Oddly enough we can’t find a product page for either of these. Has anyone heard of these or seen them in person? The X53 looks pretty good from the one picture we found of it.

Ever had a 200MB file you needed to send to someone but you had no way to send it
to them because your email was capped with a 20mb attachment limit? We’ve
all been in situations like that. For a while YouSendIt’s free File hosting
service was our savior, but they no longer offer free hosting for file sizes above 100MB. So we
sought out new alternatives and were pleased to discover a page from someone’s
LiveJournal on which the author put together a great breakdown of lots of other
YouSendit alternatives. Amongst our new favorites is Badongo which allows you to
send files up to 1GB in size and offers unlimited downloads, as well as Up-File and MiHD
which both have no maximum file size limits.

Is unsightly pet hair on your carpet and upholstery driving you crazy? Clean up after your furry friends with the new pink Dyson DC07 Animal upright vacuum. Like all Dyson vacuums, the DC07 maintains a constant suction and has a clear bag-less design. It features the Animal turbo tool for easy pet hair removal, a 5 y
ear warranty, and a lifetime HEPA filter. What is even better is that $40 from each sale will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The Dyson DC07 retails for $399 at Target. -Leah Cheng

Raising children is no easy feat. MothersClick.com, a new web 2.0 service, aims to connect mothers from around the world together so that they can share experiences and thoughts with one another. Whether you’re a mom looking to make new friends, wanting to start a playgroup in your neighborhood or you just want to get some good advice, MothersClick is there for you.

The following ASCII Art and Text generator sites are cool little tools for creating an old school design or perhaps a signature for your emails. GlassGiant’s ASCII generator will convert your own image files into ASCII text and DeGraeve’s can do the same, but it can also transform art into HTML and it gives you the option of customizing what letters to use. Tech Happens has an ASCII art generator as well which allows you to customize the quality and size. And finally, Kammerl.de has a great ASCII Text signature generator with loads of font choices. So go ahead and try one of these links out, you are sure to impress your friends.

Senko’s ScreenMirrors for your Cell Phone or iPod are set to get rid of the need to carry along a compact mirror with you. Their ScreenMirrors stick to your iPod or cell phone’s display, so that when the backlight is off, the device can function as a mirror. So if someone catches you asking your ipod who is the fairest of them all, you can explain to them that you’re only half crazy. ScreenMirrors retail for an average $18.99.

Desperate Housewives: The Game, is a new computer game based on the TV show. It seems pretty obvious that the  target audience for this game are women. "In the Desperate Housewives game, players
take on the role of a new housewife who moves into Wisteria Lane and
unlocks the delicious scandals hidden in the seemingly "perfect"
neighborhood. Mary Alice Young (voiced by Brenda Strong in the game)
serves as the omniscient narrator in this lifestyle simulation game." Overall, it seems that if you like the Sims and you like Desperate Housewives, then chances are you will like this game. Gamers over at IGN have given Desperate Housewives: The Game an average score of 7.2 which isn’t bad at all. But the best part of the game though is that it retails for an average of $19, so if you end up not taking to it, you won’t feel too bad.